For some reason, JoseF has decided that he wants to know the details o’K Jan and Spark’s cases. I s’pose he believes he can help dem somehow. I’d like to believe dat’oo. I just hopin dat JoseF don freak out or nothin. Some pretty heavy shit, afterall. Humans are sensitive to dat sorta thing. Well, here ya go, Jo. Have yerself a ball. (So to speak.)


060997 and 060998 Case Study:

060997 (a.k.a. “K Jan”) and his brother, Billy, attempt to hotwire a car they intend to use in a bank robbery. Unable to start the car, K Jan decides to steal a different car in which two teenagers are eating lunch. K Jan approaches this car and points a Luger at one teenager’s head. Then K Jan climbs into the back seat of this car and orders them to drive east. His brother follows in their own car. Both vehicles drive to a secluded canyon area. There K Jan tells the two teenagers about the upcoming robbery. He assures them that they will not be hurt. Indeed, he even offers to leave some of the stolen money in the car to pay for the use of it. The four then agree that K Jan and Billy will leave to rob the bank and that the other two youths will walk back into town and report the car stolen. As the two teenagers walk away, K Jan slowly raises the Luger and shoots one of them in the back. The victim yells, “Oh, God,” and slumps to the ground. K Jan chases the other youth down a hill into a small valley and shoots him four times. His first victim was still alive when K Jan climbed back up the hill. K Jan walks over to this youth, kneels down, puts the Luger to his head and fires. Recalling the aftermath of the shootings, it has been reported that his brother said, “He was swingin the rifle and pistol in the air and laughing. God, that laugh made blood and bone freeze in me.” After the shooting, K Jan drives to a friend’s house. There, no more than fifteen minutes after killing two sixteen year-olds, K Jan takes out the remainder of the slain youths’ lunch and begins eating one of their hamburgers. Billy becomes nauseated after K Jan offers him an apple turnover. Billy runs to the bathroom. ‘K Jan laughed at me,’ Billy is reported to have said. ‘He told me I was weak; he called me a pussy and said I didn’t have the stomach for real men’s work.’ K Jan was in a light-hearted mood. He smiled and told Billy that it would be amusing if the two of them were to pose as police officers and inform the parents that their children had been killed. Later, as they prepared to rob the bank, K Jan pulls out the Luger. Looking at the bloodstains and remnants of flesh on the barrel as a result of the point-blank shot, he says, “I really blew that guy’s brains out.” And he starts to laugh. By this point, Billy has become terrified of his brother and decides to run away.

Thirty minutes later, K Jan, along with his friend 060998 (a.k.a. “Spark”), is waiting for Billy and his parents to come home. He and Spark have now spent most of the afternoon trashing K Jan’s house. They break a TV, smash some beer bottles, and rummage through K Jan’s parents’ bedroom drawers for money, dumping the contents on to the bed. Less than two hours later, a woman passing K Jan’s house on a bicycle sees his stepfather lying in a pool of blood on the front walkway, and calls 911. Soon after, police discover Billy’s body stuffed into a crawl space in the basement of the home. There was no one else in the house. Little is known about K Jan and Spark’s activities during that evening, but it appears that they spent the night in a nearby vacant lot. They were arrested the next day while riding on a children’s carousel at a local amusement park, their clothes still stained with blood. Billy, K Jan’s kid brother, had been murdered some time around 5pm. His 125lb. body bore seventy-one knife wounds, mostly to his head. His throat had been cut so deeply that his spine was nicked. K Jan resented Billy, who had always been the favoured son. K Jan had endured years of harsh discipline and physical abuse at the hands of both his father and his stepfather.

Reflecting on her nephew’s past in an interview, K Jan’s aunt Barbara says, “I saw every grain of sweetness, pity and goodness in him destroyed. It was a long and ugly journey before he reached that point.”

Betcha anything Jo’s gonna want to know de gender o’de first two victims. I dunno who wrote up dat report but dey slipped by indicatin dat de one victim was male. Dat info ain’t allowed in de judgement. Regardless o’whether or not K Jan thinks he some kinda Son of Sam (couple killer) dis never affected his’entencin, strange as it may seem. I do think dat Jo ought to know what he’s dealin wid though, so I’m gonna tell’im.